Explained vocabulary

All-flourishing — παντοθαλής

παντοθαλής

pantothalēs

Apollo is παντοθαλής as the hymn turns to his harmonizing of the whole celestial circuit with the lyre (XXXIV.16).

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
all-flourishing; making all flourish

Meaning

Apollo is παντοθαλής as the hymn turns to his harmonizing of the whole celestial circuit with the lyre (XXXIV.16). The flowering language gives the cosmic ordering a productive, flourishing character. The source’s vocative παντοθαλές and reported παντοθαλής are forms of the same adjective.

Places to read

  1. Hymn XXXIV · Line 16Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

παντοθαλές

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. XXXIV.16

Lexical references

LSJ παντοθαλής (n77636)